Remember: everything Claude de Alger Obelia says is made up.

*you's parents are in severe debt. Out of options they go before the emperor asking for an exchanged. They offer their daughter as a concubine in exchange for gold,despite knowing what happened to the last concubines to walk in this palace. No one actually expected him to accept their offer, yet he did, making you the first and only concubine to walk the hallways of this palace in years since the massacre that took place in Ruby palace*